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A paper which considers the current trend towards the simplification of spelling, with reference to the evolution of the English language from the Middle Ages to the present day, and the reasons why simplification might reduce rather than clarify meaning.
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investigate the current trends towards the simplification of spelling (and the rationale put forward by those opposed to such a trend) it is necessary to look also at the way
in which the English language has developed over the centuries, and earlier shifts in both spelling and pronunciation which have had a significant effect on the way we use English
today. One might usefully compare, for example, the Great Vowel Shift with the current changes which English is undergoing, both in terms of the nature of those changes and the
relative speed with which they occur.
The Great Vowel Shift was a huge change in the way that English vowel wounds were pronounced, which took place in the period between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries,
and which affected the long vowel sounds in the language. It has affected all aspects of language, including the way in which reading is taught and the way that English
texts were written in the period before the GVS. Commentators usually refer to the Great Vowel Shift as taking place in eight separate steps, but as Menzer (2004) points out,
this is not something which happened quickly and in discrete stages.
For one thing, language is constantly changing and evolving, in both usage and pronunciation. Each individual uses a slightly
different form of the same language, since they have had a slightly different set of experiences from others: level of education, the area in which we live, the kind of
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